Kilimanjaro Climbing-6 days Umbwe Route
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Overview
Highlights
- Enjoy Kilimanjaro Climbing through Umbwe Route
- Discover Arusha
- Enjoy your ascent leaving the rain forest and entering the heathland moorland
- Explore semi desert and rocky landscape
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- Quality, waterproof, four-season Private Mountain sleeping tents:
- Professional, experienced, mountain guides:
- All Park fees
- Rescue fees
- All meals while on the Mountain
- Guides, Porters, cook salaries and park fees
- Quality Mess tents with table and chairs
- Large portions of fresh, healthy nutritious food
- Clean, purified drinking water
- Crisis management and safety procedures
- Fair and ethical treatment of porters
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Itinerary
Habitat: Montane forest
Hiking time: 5 hours
After an early breakfast at your hotel, you will be picked up from Arusha (1400m) and driven to the Umbwe Gate. Here you can buy mineral water and will receive a packed lunch. At this time, the porters will or...
Hiking time: 6 hours
Habitat: Moorland
After an early morning breakfast, you will start your ascent leaving the rain forest and entering the heathland moorland vegetation. In the moorland, you will spot exotic plants, including giant lobelia and groundse...
Habitat: Moorland/Semi desert
Following an early morning breakfast, you will leave the moorland environment and enter the semi desert and rocky landscape. After 5 hours of hiking east, you will be come face to face with the Lava Tower (4630m). Packed lunches ar...
Hiking time: 5 hours
Habitat: Stone scree and ice-capped glacier
After an early morning breakfast, hikers will continue to scramble up the Class 2 trail on rocks. During the rain season, an ice ax and crampons are required due to icy conditions. Hikers s...
Crater (5700m) – Uhuru Peak (5895m) – Mweka (3100m)
Hiking time: 2 hours to Uhuru and 7-8 hours to Mweka
Distance: Approximately 7 kilometer ascent and 23 kilometer descent
Habitat: Stone scree and ice-capped summit
Your guide will wake you...
Hiking time: 3 hours
Distance: Approximately 15 kilometers
Habitat: Forest
Following a well-deserved breakfast, your staff will have a big celebration full of dancing and singing. It is here on the mountain that you will present your tips to the g...
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Best time to travel: All year round
Price Details
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Prices Per person are based on US Dollars
Per person for 2 people
$2,270
Per person for 3 people
$2,211
Per person for 4 people
$2,179
Per person for 5 people
$2,159
Per person for 6 people
$2,075
Per person for 7 people
$2,101
Per person for 8 people
$2,086
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What's excluded
- Airport transfers
- Accommodation in Arusha
- Tanzania Visa
- Gratuity
- Personal Expenses (e.g. laundry, telephone, beverages, etc.)
- Meals not listed above
- Optional Tours (short safari after your climb etc)
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